Institutional bed



Aug. 22, 1933. R. L. CLARK INSTITUTIONAL BED Original Filed Aug. 21, 1930 v m 1/11 I M J IM [UR TIL 1/ 1 8 m P N I I 11 E ll/H W V b m 3 m4 O Q .3 7% 2 & 4 "m a. w. W 1 I c 8 7M1: ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 22, 1933 UNITE l STATES INSTITUTIONAL BED' Raymond L. Clark, Rochester, N; Y., assignor, by

mesne assignments,

to Armorite Equipment Incorporated, Rochester, N. Y., a Corporation of New York Application August 21,

1930, Serial No. 476,782

Renewed February 25, 1933 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to institutional beds and an object thereof is to provide a construction which will occupy a minimum space either in position of use or in a folded condition. Another object of the invention is to provide a bed which may also serve to hold personal efiects of the user. A further object of the invention is to provide a bed having a stool or seat associated therewith in such a manner as to be hidden when not in use. A still further object of the invention is to provide a compartment associated with the bed and having a'seat adapted to be received in said compartment and act as a 010- sure for the compartment.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described: the novel features being pointed out in the appended claim:

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal or side view of a bed embodying my invention, parts being broken away;

Fig. 2 is a front view; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical, transverse section on line 3--3, Fig. 1.

According to this invention there is provided a bed designed for prisons or other institutions where persons are required to sleep in close arrangement, provision preferably being made in the form of a rectangular receptacle providing a compartment for holding personal efiects of the user of the bed as well as giving to the user a seat or stool at one side of the bed movable to an out of way position at will and serving as a closure to the compartment.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, 1 indicates a wall of a room and 2 the floor, secured in close contact to the wall and the floor is a compartment formed by walls formed of sheet metal walls such as a bottom wall 3, a horizontal top wall 4, vertically and transversely extending side walls 5 and a vertically and longitudinally extending end wall 6, the compartment extending the full width of the bed and having one end open so that access may be readily gained to the compartment. The side wall 5 which is nearest to the vertical wall 1 of the room is sometimes herein referred to as the rear side wall while the other side wall 5 which is the furthest from the wall 1 is referred to as the front side wall. The side walls which are parallel are spaced apart and it is between these that the compartthe This compartment, in addition to serving to hold personal effects of the user of the bed, may serve to hold a seat, and to this end, the opposite ,side walls are provided near the top wall with horizontal guides '7 on, which a seat member 8 in the form of a sheet of metal is adapted to slide transversely. At its outer edge this seat member is connected to the inner face of a vertically and longitudinally extending closure member 9, which, when the seat is in its inner position, will close the compartment and which, when the seat is in its outer position, acts as a support or leg forthe outer edge of the seat, the lower edge of the closure resting on the floor.

The top of the compartment forms the head member of a bed bottom which also includes a bottom member 10 sometimes hereinafter referred to as intermediate member comprising an outer frame with a fabric bottom, hinged at its rear end at 11 to the upper portion of the front wall 5 of the compartment so that the upper surface of the bottom member lies in a horizontal plane with the top wall of the compartment so that the top Wall may serve as the head portion of the bottom of the bed when the intermediate member 10 is in its horizontal position but so that the intermediate member 10 can be swung whereby the front or .foot end can be moved upwardly and rearwardly until said foot end contacts with the wall 1 or, in other words, until the foot end is in substantial alignment with the vertical and transverse plane of the rear side 5 .of the compartment. When in this position it will be noted that the intermediate member 10 has an upward and rearward inclination and is located over the rec-- tangular box. The'outer or front end of the bottom member may have hinged thereto at 12 a foot frame 13 projecting above and below the hinge 12 when the bottom member 10 is in a horizontal position. Braces 14 pivoted at 15 to the bottom member and detachably connected at 16 to the lower portion of the frame 13 support the latter in an upright position.

By detaching the braces 14 from the frame 13, the latter may be folded on the under side of the bottom member 10 and held in this position by a spring clip 1'7 of any suitable construction, 1

so that the foot frame will project at its upper end beyond the end of the bottom member 10, in order that it may engage behind a spring clip 18 on the wall 1 above the bed and hold the latter in a folded position, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the bed clothes, if desired, lying between the bed bottom 10 and the wall 1. This permits the inspection of the floors in the room or dormitory in which the bed is situated.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: a

An institutional bed comprising in combination a head member in the form of a rectangular receptacle providing a compartment, an intermediate or bottom member, the rear end of which is hinged to the upper front edge portion of the receptacle, the receptacle having spaced vertically and transversely extending front and rear side Walls between which the compartment is located, the hinged connection and from closed position; and a vertically and transversely extending closure member providing a leg for the seat member when open and as a closure for the open end of the box when in closed position, said leg being secured only at its upper end.

RAYMOND L. CLARK. 

